428 



FULGOEID.li:. 



reticulately veined, two longitudinal veins emitted close together 

 beneath the radial vein, both furcate, the first at about middle, 

 the second before middle, the whole tegmen more or less trans- 

 versely reticulate, a distinct subapical line formed of transverse 

 veins defining a marginal series of longitudinal areas ; wings with 

 two transverse veins near apex, some of tlie longitudinal veins 

 outwardly bifurcating. 



2022, Flata ocellata, Fahr. (Cicada) Syd. Enf. p. 682. 1 (1775) ; id. 



(Flata) Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 517. 2 (1798) ; Spin. (Pceeiloptera) 



Ami. Soc. Ent. Fr, 1839, p. 441; Genu. (liicania) Maq. Ent. 



iii, p. 224 (1818) ; Stdl (Flata), Hem. Fahr. ii, p. 107 (■l869) ; 



Athins. J. A. S. Benq. Iv, p. (i8 (1886) ; Eirh. J. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



Bomh. xiv, p. 53, t. A, f. 6 (1902) ; Melich. (Cryptoflata) Ann. 



Hofmus. Wien, xvii, p. 21, t. iii, f. 19 (1902). 

 Pceeiloptera stellaris, Walk. List Horn, ii, p. 453 (1851). 

 Pceeiloptera argiolus, Stdl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1855, p. 191. 

 CrvptoHata flavoguttata, Melich. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvii, p. 21 



(1902). 



Body and legs pale ochraceous or greenish-ochraceous, the pro- 

 notuui and mesonotuni sometimes not concolorous ; tegmina very 

 pale virescent, the venation a little darker, interspersed with small 

 dull sanguineous spots, extreme edges of costal and posterior 

 margins pale ochraceous ; wings creamy-white ; tegmina with the 



Pi^%-^ 



Fig. 225. — Flata ocellata. 



clavus somewhat coarsely granulose, the costal membrane slightly 

 cretaceously tomeutose, the apical margin a little sinuate before 

 posterior angle. 



Length excl. tegm. 8 ; exp. tegm. 23 millim. 



Hah. Tranquebar. Ceylon; Kandy and Kelani Valley (&V^en). 



I cannot separate the Ceylonese form, described byMelichar as 

 ■flavoguttata, from typical F. ocellata. Its describer writes : "Very 

 like ocellata, but considerably larger (only 2 millim. in length) : 

 body pale yellow ; two strong orange-yellow longitudinal stripes on 

 pronotum and mesonotum ; tegmina pale yellowish or greenish- 

 white with numerous large scattered orange-yellow spots; in 

 ocellata the spots are very small and generally exhibit a dark central 

 dot : otherwise like ocellata, and perhaps only a variety." 



